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<h1>Ionize at a Glance</h1>


<h2>Ionize is Simple</h2>

<p>Ionize was built with 3 main basis in mind :</p>
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	<li>Usability : Based on real life user experiences, Ionize is one of the more user friendly CMS</li>
	<li>Flexibility : Developpers can create there own tags easily</li>
	<li>Openess : Ionize is open to the its community. Sharing ideas is the center of our work.</li>
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<h2>Ionize is Fast</h2>
<p>Ionize is based on CodeIgniter, one of the faster PHP Application framework.</p>
<p>Most of template language are slowing down performances. FTL, the one developed for Ionize does not.
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Inspired by a famous Ruby template language, it is today the fastest known PHP template language, after PHP itself.
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<h2>Ionize is Extensible</h2>
<p>Build your own controllers, create your own tags, these tasks are just simple with Ionize.</p>
<p>With Ionize, you get the power of <a href="http://www.codeigniter.com" target="_blank">CodeIgniter</a> in your CMS.</p>
<p>If you need other data than the provided ones, you can create and use your own extended fields, without alter manually the database.</p>
<p><strong>Ionize is modular : </strong>If you need one dedicated feature, modules add features to both backend and frontend.</p>

<h2>Ionize is Free</h2>
<p>Ionize is licensed under the MIT open source license. For more information please read the <a href="../license.html">licence agreement</a>.</p>
<p>CodeIgniter, the application framework used for Ionize, is licensed under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.</p>


<h2>Ionize is Really Multilingual</h2>
<p>Nothing more to install : Ionize was thought multilingual.</p>
<p>Each content, from static data like "You are here" to pages, articles, medias data, everything can be translated.</p>


<h2>Ionize generates SEO friendly URLs</h2>
Ionize produce SEO friendly URLs and let you define each URL regarding the language:</p>
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http://your-domain.tld/<var>en</var>/<dfn>about</dfn>/<samp>me</samp>
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http://your-domain.tld/<var>fr</var>/<dfn>a-propos</dfn>/<samp>de-moi</samp>
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<h2>Ionize is Thoroughly Documented</h2>
<p>Programmers love to code and hate to write documentation.  We're no different, of course, but
since documentation is <strong>as important</strong> as the code itself,
we are committed to doing it. Our source code is extremely clean and well commented as well.</p>


<h2>Ionize has a Friendly Community of Users</h2>
<p>Our growing community of users can be seen actively participating in our <a href="http://www.ionizecms.com/forum/">Community Forum</a>.</p>


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